On Our Radar: Land That Job With Social Media

That egalitarian meritocracy known as Silicon Valley isn’t what it seems. The Journal details some “boorish” behavior at a recent TechCrunch conference and other signs that women often still don’t feel very welcome in tech-land. –Melissa Korn

Harvard Business Review designed a fun interactive graphic to go with the research on executive email habits that we wrote about last month. With a few clicks you can explore the time savings an office with five executives and 80 employees could experience by cutting back on messages from the executive team. – Rachel Feintzeig

If you’re looking for work, you might want to make sure your social media accounts are up to snuff. Mashable notes that job seekers recruited via Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn are not only more likely to be hired, they’re more likely to stay in the job, too. What’s more, Jobvite found that companies that employ social media for recruiting see higher-quality candidates overall. — Francesca Donner

And finally…

So you went to Harvard. Fine. But what have you done since? One of the residential houses at the Cambridge, Mass.-based university is asking students to pony up their Wikipedia entry as it compiles biographies of its alumni, notes Business Insider. Those without fame, fortune and laurels had better think of something fast. – Francesca Donner

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